PSI News

The Psychological Society of Ireland's Chief Executive Officer Terri Morrissey, was on the Ivan Yates Show on Newstalk with folklorist Eddie Linehan debate the topic of superstition and luck. You can listen back here

The transformation of ever more human activities into data means that managing one’s privacy is becoming highly complex, co-opted by practices of state regulation and emerging business models. Our project, “Children's data and privacy online: growing up in a digital age,” funded by the UK’s data protection authority, prioritises children’s voices, experiences and rights within a wider framework of evolving policy-making. In this talk, I draw on a recent systematic evidence mapping and a series of workshops with children around the UK to distinguish interpersonal, institutional and commercial contexts within which children of different ages make decisions about data and privacy online. While the regulatory focus post-GDPR is increasingly on commercial and institutional uses of children’s data, families conceptualise privacy in interpersonal (often, e-safety) terms, resulting in a clash of values and misunderstandings which demand urgent resolution.

The recording of this lecture is available to PSI members in the Member Dashboard area. To access slides from the lecture, please click here

The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) has issued a statement in response to the prolonged concerns in relation to recruitment in mental health teams in Ireland. In particular, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

The PSI shares the concerns of those who have noted the long waiting lists and unmet need of those requiring support at all levels of the mental health system.

Dr Damien Lowry talks on WLRFM about cleaning influencers

Mrs Hinch is one of the main cleaning influencers to grab people's attention. Why are people so obsessed with watching her clean her home? Damien Lowry spoke on WLRFM to discuss this cleaning phenomenon and the potential therapeutic effects it's having on followers. Click here to listen from 33:00 minutes into the show.

Ways to help yourself through the hardest of times

As part of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) Annual Conference, the Society was delighted to host a free Public Talk, Resilience in the Real World, presented by psychologist Niamh Fitzpatrick and supported by Wexford's "ask" mental awareness campaign. Niamh began her career as a Sports Psychologist and such experience led her on to working in areas of business psychology, performance and life coaching. It was a privilege to hear Niamh share her personal experience of Resilience with nearly 200 people in the audience. If you didn't make it on the night, click here for a summary on how to cope in hard times.